San Francisco: Progressive Labor Party, 1965. Folded tabloid newsprint, 8pp. Editor (post-)proofing copy of the August 1965 issue of SPARK: Western Voice for Revolution, the periodical newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party out of San Francisco. Primarily edited by activist, reporter, and poet John Ross, this copy is riddled with.....
San Diego: [Kathy Acker], 1973. Saddle-stapled in printed self-wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 28pp. Printed in blue on tan paperstock. The sixth volume (of six total) of Acker's serially self-published first novel, issues of which were mailed to subscribers. Republished in a single-volume trade edition by TVRT Press in 1975.....
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1977. Illustrated by Alex Katz. Copy “H” of 26 lettered copies signed by Mathews and Katz to colophon at rear. From a total edition of 750 copies. Perfect-bound in green printed wraps, 8vo. 178 pp. A prose work by Mathews based on the words occurring in.....
New York, New York: Harper, 1958. Jacket design by Leo Manso. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth with white lettering and illustration on black spine in pictorial jacket, 183 pp.
New York City, NY & London, England: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1982. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. Second Printing in a first state dust jacket. Hardcover 8vo quarter bound with purple cloth spine and silver lettering, cream boards in an glossy illustrated dust jacket, 245 pp. Alice Walker's double.....
New York: 0 to 9 Books, 1968. 4to. Side-stapled in red wraps stamped in red on front cover. [38] pp. Mayer's first book, published by the 0 to 9 imprint she ran with her brother-in-law, artist Vito Acconci.
Japan: Gakken, 1985. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, some fraying along front edge of spine, light shelving and handling wear. Slipcase is in good condition, some rubbing and light fraying along edges and front and rear panel of case, light soiling, still sturdy.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1967. Jacket by Tom O'Sullivan. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, gray cloth with orange stamped titling to boards, 248 pp. First Edition of Cooper's underground classic of prison life in a Lexington Federal Narcotics penitentiary ("The Farm"). Cooper, who had briefly enjoyed literary success with his autobiographical.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First edition. Hardcover with illustrated red and navy boards with black spine and brown lettering, no dust jacket, 8vo, 274 pp. Signed First Edition of McKay's sole collection of short fiction. Gingertown consists of tales depicting McKay's worlds up to 1932: his.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, second printing. 12mo Hardcover, quarter yellow cloth over patterned boards with a mounted title plate to top board and spine, 108 pp. First collection from the young poet who helped ignite the powderkeg that was the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen began publishing to.....
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1980. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 130pp. Inscribed at his p. 13 contribution (a single poem) by Donald Britton: "Love to Kenward [Elmslie], Donald 3/31/80". Donald Britton was a New York and later Los Angeles-based poet who died of AIDS complications in.....
New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. Jacket Design by Neil Stuart. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, silver stamped titling to quarter white cloth over gray boards, 326 pp. Beautiful First Edition of DeLillo's most enduring and best known novel, widely considered to be his masterpiece.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. First Edition. Black cloth spine, lettered in brown, backing brown paper covered boards with decorative "95" printed to both. In pictorial jacket. First trade edition of Cumming's final book published in his lifetime, preceded by a limited signed.....
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1982. A nice copy of her fourth collection of poems, as issued by Dennis Cooper's Little Caesar Press.
Steidl Germany: Gordon Parks Foundation, 2012. Hardcover gray cloth boards with black and red lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, folio, 271 pp.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Jacket by Ellen Raskin. First Edition. Hardcover octavo navy cloth boards with light blue spine framing and gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 345 pp. True first edition of author's scarce second novel published by Doubleday in 1966.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1967. Jacket by Roy Schlemme. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo, black boards with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 594 pp. First Edition, first printing, of this simultaneously celebrated and controversial polemic assessing the struggle of black activists, artists, and academics in its moment. The Crisis.....
New York City, NY: Harper & Row, 1988. Jacket Design George Corsillo. First Edition. Hardcover [8vo], maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine in a pictorial dust jacket, 269 pp. First Edition, signed to title page.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. Jacket Illustrated by Mark Foreman. First hardcover edition. Hardcover octavo, black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, in illustrated dust jacket. 126 pp. Inscribed by Ballard to title page. Scarce first hardcover of this collection of short stories by the godfather of countercultural speculative fiction.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. Third Printing. 8vo. 112 pp. Blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Transcription of a televised conversation between leading Black writers Baldwin and Giovanni, first aired on the program "Soul!", with a foreword by Ida Lewis. As she writes, "Jimmy and Nikki are a......
London: Anthony Blond Ltd, 1970. First UK Edition. Hardvoer 8vo, black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 534 pp. First UK Edition of McElroy's second novel.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1968. Jacket by S.A. Summit. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo. Half black cloth over yellow boards, stamped yellow and orange lettering to spine, in illustrated dust jacket. [xviii] 670 pp. First Edition of this important landmark anthology of the Black Arts Movement and its fellow.....
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New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1983. Hardcover octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, xvi, 273 pp.
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, corners sharp, binding tight, slight cant to spine, minor glue deposit on front pastedown that does not affect clarity of printed images, light shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Dustjacket is in very.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over gray boards, publishers gilt logo stamped to top board, gilt lettering to spine, [xii] 178 pp. First Edition of Dr. King's fourth book, which grew out of his famous and widely published "Letter from Birmingham Jail".....